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...changed the nature of the domestic debate over nuclear arms. "We have been able to get the Administration to adopt an arms-control approach that is genuinely bipartisan and will provide a consistent, sustainable basis for the next Administration, whatever it is, Democratic or Republican," said Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a liberal Democrat...
...always been an unlikely alliance: liberal Democrats joining with the Reagan Administration to save the controversial MX missile. But Congressmen Les Aspin of Wisconsin, Norman Dicks of Washington, and Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee never promised their support with no strings attached. When the Scowcroft Commission's report on strategic forces came out last April, the three were widely credited with engineering the package's major quid pro quo: congressional support for the MX in exchange for the Administration's good-faith pursuit of a U.S.-Soviet arms-control deal. So far the Congressmen have delivered...
...Aspin has now publicly put the Administration on notice that it must modify its arms-control policy or Congress will begin to starve the MX. In a letter to retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, made public last week, Aspin called on the commission Scowcroft chairs to formulate a new U.S. proposal for the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and recommended that the Administration agree to substitute the commission's version for its own. The letter also outlines broad suggestions for modifying the U.S. stance at START...
...Aspin made clear that his vote and those of other pro-MX Democrats hinge on arms-control progress. Said he: "People aren't about to be snookered." That message is not new. Aspin, Dicks and Gore sounded the same warning in early August at a private White House meeting with National Security Adviser William Clark. But the pressure is being turned up at a time when both the START talks and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Geneva are in a deepfreeze...
...Aspin, 44, Democratic Representative from Wisconsin, on the House refusal to fund production of five MX missiles: "It doesn't mean the MX is dead. If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always...